Lake Sacajawea

Most of the 2025 stocking at Lake Sacajawea was a spring job: 81% of 13,620 fish, March to May. The rest went in on Dec 17 and Dec 23.

WDFW data through Oct 30, 2026. Page updated November 5, 2026.

Lake Sacajawea in numbers

catchable trout in 2025: 13,620
so far in 2026, through Oct 30: 15,920
2025 against the 2015–2025 average of 18,490 a year: −26%

2026 is running ahead of 2025: 15,920 fish through Oct 30, against 11,045 by the same date a year earlier. The latest batch, 2,700 brown trout, went in on May 6, 2026, 183 days before this page was built.

WDFW lists Lake Sacajawea as 45.5 acres in Cowlitz County, at 8 ft. At 8 ft it is the lowest of the 36 waters here with a listed elevation. It is the smaller of the 2 Cowlitz County waters on this site. The 2025 releases work out to about 299 catchable trout per acre here; 13 of the 37 waters on this site with a WDFW acreage were stocked more densely.

Release log

Every release since January 2025

11 species-date records, newest first. Fish per lb is the figure WDFW reports for each batch.

Latest batch, May 6, 20262,700brown trout, 6 oz each

Spring 2026

May 6Brown trout2,7002.7 per lb · avg 6 oz

Apr 24Rainbow trout3,5802 per lb · avg 8 oz

Apr 21Rainbow trout3,6402.6 per lb · avg 6 oz

Mar 25Rainbow trout3,0002.5 per lb · avg 6 oz

Mar 3Rainbow trout3,0002.7 per lb · avg 6 oz

Spring 2025

Apr 25Rainbow trout2,0451.5 per lb · avg 11 oz

Apr 9Rainbow trout3,0002.5 per lb · avg 6 oz

Apr 3Rainbow trout3,0002.5 per lb · avg 6 oz

Apr 2Rainbow trout3,0002.7 per lb · avg 6 oz

Winter 2025

Dec 23Rainbow trout2,5002.8 per lb · avg 6 oz

Dec 17Rainbow trout750.1 per lb · avg 10.0 lb

2015 – 2026

Fish released each year

2025 is yellow. 2026 is outlined because the year is not over: the data runs to Oct 30, 2026. The busiest full year was 2022, with 10 release dates and 23,424 fish; the 2015–2025 average is 7.5 release dates a year.

2015: 14,393 catchable fish on 7 release dates
2016: 18,549 catchable fish on 5 release dates
2017: 18,229 catchable fish on 7 release dates
2018: 19,710 catchable fish on 9 release dates
2019: 20,930 catchable fish on 9 release dates
2020: 19,930 catchable fish on 9 release dates
2021: 15,819 catchable fish on 6 release dates
23k2022: 23,424 catchable fish on 10 release dates
2023: 18,745 catchable fish on 7 release dates
2024: 20,046 catchable fish on 8 release dates
14k2025: 13,620 catchable fish on 6 release dates
16k2026 (to Oct 30): 15,920 catchable fish on 5 release dates

How big are these fish?

4 to 8 oz: 23,840 fish, 81%
8 to 16 oz: 5,625 fish, 19%
2 lb and over: 75 fish, 0%

Weight is 1 ÷ fish per lb, as WDFW reports it for each batch. It is a batch average, not a guarantee for any one fish. Counts cover every release since January 2025.

Notes from the records

The biggest single batch since January 2025 was 3,640 rainbow trout on Apr 21, 2026. The heaviest fish were 75 rainbow trout on Dec 17, 2025, at 0.1 per lb, about 10.0 lb each.

Species in these records: brown trout, rainbow trout.

Timing shifts from year to year. Treat this as a pattern, not a promise.